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Which translation(s) would you recommend?
Tobias Zielinski The german hexameter translation by Johann Heinrich Voß has a good attention to the original one.
My only problem is that the language of Voß is totall…moreThe german hexameter translation by Johann Heinrich Voß has a good attention to the original one.
My only problem is that the language of Voß is totally victorian.
The language style and the endless redundances are weighing down the overall reading-experience.
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The Iliad
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